The Persistence of Orientalism: Anglo-American Historians and Modern Egypt

by Peter Gran

Book Overview

Why is the 1798 Napoleonic invasion of Egypt routinely accepted as a watershed moment between premodern and modern in general histories on the Middle East? Although decades of scholarship, most-notably Edward Said's Orientalism, have critiqued traditional binaries of developed and undeveloped in Arab studies, the narrative of 1798 symbolizing the coming of the modern west to the rescue of the static east endures. Peter Gran's The Persistence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815636989
• ISBN13: 9780815636984
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 14.6"